News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Lazio has ripped both Clintons over its price 4. According to the Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts can bar them from being troop leaders 8. The Gift of the Magi gift 11. Singer DiFranco 12. Orsk's river 13. "Later!" 14. The run-up to its election was tainted by violence 16. Bear up? 17. He's home at last 18. Applies with a Q-tip 20. U.S. Middle East mediator 23. Online brokerage firm that just went decimal 26. Nautilus sites 29. Stephen King beast 31. Day-__ 32. Prosecutors must tell his lawyer which nations they believe he tried to give nuke secrets 33. Clinton says Gore should not suffer for his "__" scandals 34. "__-la-la!" 35. Getting on 36. Footnote abbr. 37. Real bad 38. Louisville's New Vision Art Gallery is showing works by __ artists 40. Iranian currency 42. AOL's CEO 44. Excoriate, in headline-speak 48. Site of 50th-anniversary observance of the Korean War's first casualties 50. The Supreme Court struck down its law banning partial-birth abortions 53. The 9-Down has met with Fujimori to push for reforms here 54. Dreaded '60s draft status 55. Reuther's org. 56. Give walking papers to 57. The American Heart Association has agreed to support __-cell research 58. Org. that Bush wants to split in two

DOWN

1. Consult the crystal ball 2. __'s Ghost (Ondaatje novel) 3. __ Valley (site of Reagan Library) 4. 53-Across was a huge 19th century exporter of this 5. High-pressure Wall Street specialist, for short 6. Swerve off course 7. Must-have in an Iditarod 8. __.gov (site that will consolidate 20,000 current government websites) 9. Western treaty gp. since 1948 10. Drag queen's wrap 13. House members have agreed to ease the food embargo on it 15. Confederate-flag items 19. Hubbubs 21. Kiltie? 22. This was rationed beginning July 1, 1918 24. Victims of the Morlocks 25. He says he never took bribes as Chancellor 26. Silly Putty unit 27. Cry out loud 28. House Dems walked out over the __ prescription-drug issue 30. Inkster, who repeated as LPGA champion 33. Oysters' homes 37. Cinders of old comics 39. Mork's sign-off, when doubled 41. James __ Garfield 43. Slaughter in baseball 45. __ White (IBM's new supercomputer) 46. Kind of graft 47. Kit Carson's home 48. __-Locka, Fla. 49. Masters and Johnson subject 51. Medical specialty (abbr.) 52. Royal-jelly maker

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